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Conor Oberst

"Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam."

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"Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam."

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"Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently."

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"Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition."

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"Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors."

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"A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses."

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"Poets write the words you have heard before but in a new sequence."

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"Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin."

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"It's difficult to get films made, especially films about poets."

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"When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble."

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"I'm passing on a tradition of which I am part. There's a long line of poets who went before me, and I'm another one, and I'm hoping to pass that on to other younger, or newer, poets than myself."

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"Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words."

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"Love's an excuse to get hurt."
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"Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness."
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"Screaming is bad for the voice, but it's good for the heart."
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"We must memorize nine numbers and deny we have a soul."
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